Author:Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(0s BCE – 65)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Works

Dramatic works

Collections

• The Eyght Tragedie of Seneca entituled Agamemnon translated out of Latin into English, by John Studley
• Seneca, his tenne tragedies, translated into Englyſh, transl. Jasper Heywood, Alexander Neville, John Studley, T. Nuce, Thomas Newton (1581) (external scan)
• The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, trans. Julian Watson Bradshaw (1902) (transcription project)
• The Tragedies of Seneca, trans. Frank Justus Miller (1907) (transcription project)

Tragedies

• Agamemnon
• Hercules Furens (Madness of Hercules)
• Hercules Oetaeus (Hercules on Oeta)
• Medea
• Oedipus
• Phaedra (or Hippolytus)
• Phoenissae (Phoenician Women, or Thebais)
• Thyestes
• Troades (Trojan Women)

Fabula praetexta

• Octavia (authorship disputed)

Letters

• Moral letters to Lucilius (Loeb Classical Library edition; translated by Gummere)
• Seneca's letter describing gladiators
• Correspondence of Paul and Seneca, now considered a forgery

Compilations

• A New Translation of the Morals of Seneca, trans. by George Bennet (1745)
• The Epistles of Lucius Annæus Seneca, trans. by Thomas Morell (1786)
• The morals of Seneca: a selection of his prose, trans. by Walter Baker Clode (1888)

Essays

• Apocolocyntosis
• On Benefits (De Beneficiis)
  • The Line of Liberalitie dulie directinge the wel bestowing of benefites and reprehending the comonly used vice of ingratitude, trans. by Nihcolas Haward (1569)
  • The worke of the excellent philosopher Lucius Annæus Seneca trans. by Arthur Golding (1578)
• Naturales quaestiones, translated as Physical science in the time of Nero (external scan)

Dialogues

• Moral essays. With an English translation by J.W. Basore 1928 vol 1, vol 3
• Dialogues by Seneca, translated to English by Aubrey Stewart (1887-1898) Full text
• On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitæ)
  • Lucius Annæus Seneca, the philosopher, his booke of the shortnesse of life, trans. by Ralph Freeman (1636)
• Of a Happy Life (De Vita Beata)
• Of Providence (De Providentia)
• On the Firmness of the Wise Man (De Constantia Sapientis)
• Of Anger (De Ira)
• Of Leisure (De Otio)
• Of Peace of Mind (De Tranquillitate Animi)
• Of Clemency (De Clementia)

Consolations

• Of Consolation: To Helvia
• Of Consolation: To Polybius
• Of Consolation: To Marcia

Compilations

• A Fruitefull worke of Lucius Anneus Seneca, trans. by Robert Whittington (1547)
• Six excellent treatises of life and death, trans. by Phillip Mornay (1607)
• The workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, trans. by Thomas Lodge (1614)
• A New Translation of the Morals of Seneca, trans. by George Bennet (1745)
• Minor dialogues: together with the dialogue on clemency, trans. by Aubrey Stewart (1889)

Works about Seneca

Encyclopedia articles

• "Seneca, L. Annæus," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (21) (1886)
• “Seneca, L. Annaeus”, by George Long in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Seneca, L. Annæus," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Seneca," by Robert Drew Hicks in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).

About his works

• The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy (1893) 1907 reprint: (external scan)